Alan

2 big blue plastic drums.

Yesh, zay doo normally. The mals won't tho.

Dont get distracted when using a 1000watt immersible heater, even if it is in a 6' tank. One way of getting rid of the pacus I suppose but it hurt.

What is wrong with using the egg crate covers from fluros to go above the U/G filter plates. They can be set on the plates themseves or slightly above to give some extra depth. The boys will only dig down to the crate and the U/G will still be working.

The moss is used above the grid and is at the target point where you want the maximum spawn to be dropped If you leave egg layers in that long, you are going to loose the biggest percentage of your spawn, they will normally drop most in the earlier part of their meeting. The fry only take about 12 hours, and less than 24 to hatch and come up onto the glass sides. Easy targets for the parents. Also the fish aren't fed in that spawning tank either. No wonder your excited

I'm sure that with Caryl, being an aquarist, a sckool of chocolate fish would be appreciated. Wouldn't have to pay $25 for courier either. Definitely no heat paks required either.

Look for a guy that is breeding D gourami and selling on TradeMe. They appear a good price and as they have not have to go thru the trauma of quarantine drugs etc to get them to the shop, I consider them a lot better buy.. Wouldn't you be happier with a partner?? No, not another male tho. Interesting breeding these guys too.

The distance from the front or back is neither here nor there, without being stupid. Just that you may as well almost, used 2x2 for the strong back. As for supporting you? You aren't a very big lad now are you. Wish I was your size or somewhere near it. :lol:

Welcome to the site ripping. Looks like to me that you're a little too eager and have overloaded, what I suspect from what information that you have given, an uncycled tank. Love those glass cats in a nice school, but they could be first in line. Also if the chinese sucking loach is indeed the chinese algae eater, that it is a bad choice. A better choice would have been a bristlenose catfish. Good luck in your endeavors and I hope my Doomsday prediction isn't correct.

Paul I told you that the 4x2 should be on edge for maximum strength. :evil: Have you permanentised it??. Breadknife or hacksaw blade, cuts it well or a craft knife onto a hard cutting surface. I can just imagine what the flat looks like.

Ya going to a third one for hindmost sight Amazonian?? By the way Caryl, mine arrived today, thanks for another stirling effort.

Who's loosing their marbles Caryl?? Back to you. :roll:

See, now you might get an invite to join one of the great clubs up there now. Once again welcome. Not so bad being an Aucklander, but I shifted, a wise move looking back on it.

Keep running it backwards and forwards Ryan and you'll have more success with a hammer. A cut in the glass is not really a cut, it is a score, a weakening, and you will not create that with multiple cuts. Not only that, you promply stuff up the cutter. I use those oil filled ones, and as long as you keep the reservoir filled you should have no problems. I use 1/2 and 1/2 engine oil and kerosine. Clean the area where the line is to be marked, make sure that it is dry, be confident, hold tour straight edge firmly, and make the cut in one stroke. Barrie is the best to tell you which is the top for a cutter. Mine cost about $75.00

And where is A-town?? Not much help if some one wants to give you a hand with something. How about going back to your profile and filling in the appropriate space and letting us know where you REALLY live. Welcome to the forum, and I've got my teeth out this time too.

Recently after the July newsletter of the NZKA, we had a letter of concern when I quoted in an article that I did, that we used margarine containers. Peter Cottle wrote back almost return email, to say that his friends and himself, were having problems with both fry and eggs, having them fungus and die. I said that maybe his lot weren't as "food-grade" as ours, because we in NZ don't appear to have the same problem. He now buys chocolates and uses the container that they come in. Gets a couple of bonus's with that I guess.

Then that shows how much they know about the fish breeding of some species then, doesn't it. Do they think the females get impregnated?? If they were doing their job right, the tank that they were in should have been emptied out, gravel sterilized and plants destroyed. IMO those that only had fish confiscated were lucky, even tho it was the wrong action, other than the offending fish. Could have been heaps worse.

One word Paul. Definitely

What an absolute load of bollocks. The undergravel filter is recommended to have 76mm of gravel over the top of it. The big rocks spoken of are decoration or security areas mainly. The water is gently drawn through the filter bed and the clean water comes up the pipe with the air, and so it goes on. To clean them, which isn't very often, turn of the air and apply a syphon to the airlift. Some ppl wince at the "gunk" that forms underneath the plate, but if left undisturbed, causes no problems with the gentle airflow over it. The gravel above the filter is gravel vac'd when ever the rest of the tank is done, and the only problem I have found are with big cichlids, that can dislodge, or break the upright stems. Or cichlids that like playing with gravel and spit it down the pipe. Nothing wrong with U/G filters and one helluva a lot cheaper.

A spawning trap is a specifically designed grid that the fish can't get round, through, or under, to get at the eggs. I use the 4mm mesh used on building sites for covering the polystyrene cladding before plastering. I have mine on a purpose built glass frame 25mm up from the bottom. That way you can see when the fish have spawned.

Use a PM Mal, and can you please PM me with the info too.

Sorry Rogan, have to go along with Barrie on this one. But putting that brace along the inside of the bottom on the long sides when you rebuild is something that won't be wasted.

Don't touch the ammo-lok it stufs up the cycling process. What have you got in the tank to cycle it, what fish, plants, and how big is it. LxBxH??

Absolutely fantastic phyrestaata, good luck with the next step on their jouney.

I got one wild caught from a farmers dam in Palmerston North. So if it can live there for estimated 7 years guess it would just about live anywhere. They are tru Australians and love to go walk-about, and head for the nearest laggoon. I lost mine from it climbing up one of those blue coves from the whareware. They have very sharp claws that they use to great success for climbing even straight sided timber compounds.. Their bite is like a love bite from someone that has no teeth, mine loved the odd bird I chucked in for it and also cut up frozen anchovies.